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Today Rick Hoyme, John Hockema, Jeff Stephenson, and I birded Jackson = and Cottonwood Counties. At 8:30 this morning we were staked out along = the Iowa/Minnesota border at the north side of Spirit Lake in Jackson = County, waiting for the Black-headed Gull to fly into MN. We didn't = have long to wait, as the gull flew over the road and landed in MN = waters. It must have looked quite comical for the Iowa fishermen to see = us jumping and giving high fives after a gull crossed a road. This afternoon we birded the Red Rock Prairie in Cottonwood County in = hopes of finding Smith's Longspurs. We eventually began hearing the = twittering of longspurs, and low and behold, we found ourselves in the = midst of about 75-100 Smith's! As far as we could tell, there were no = Laplands mixed in. It was very interesting hearing the twittering of = the Smith's, quite different from the rattle of Laplands. =20 Get out and enjoy the birds! -Bob Dunlap, Carver County ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C395A9.C8D5C3D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Today Rick Hoyme, John Hockema, Jeff = Stephenson,=20 and I birded Jackson and Cottonwood Counties. At 8:30 this = morning we=20 were staked out along the Iowa/Minnesota border at the north side of = Spirit Lake=20 in Jackson County, waiting for the Black-headed Gull to fly into = MN. We=20 didn't have long to wait, as the gull flew over the road and landed in = MN=20 waters. It must have looked quite comical for the Iowa fishermen = to see us=20 jumping and giving high fives after a gull crossed a road.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>This afternoon we birded the Red Rock = Prairie in=20 Cottonwood County in hopes of finding Smith's Longspurs. We = eventually=20 began hearing the twittering of longspurs, and low and behold, we found=20 ourselves in the midst of about 75-100 Smith's! As far as we could = tell,=20 there were no Laplands mixed in. It was very interesting hearing = the=20 twittering of the Smith's, quite different from the rattle of = Laplands. =20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Get out and enjoy the = birds!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>-Bob Dunlap, Carver=20 County</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C395A9.C8D5C3D0--